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This page is outdated. I no longer work at Iowa State.
The updated version of this page is at
http://www.alexanderburstein.com/personal.html
I was born in Moscow,
Russia, and grew
up in Kiev, Ukraine. In the United
States, before coming to Ames,
I mostly lived in Philadelphia,
PA, where I studied at the
University of Pennsylvania. In
my spare time, I enjoy listening to and playing classical
guitar. I'm much (much!) better at listening.
I also like chess, but the
only chess variant where I used to have any success at all is suicide
chess. Here at Iowa State, I was a faculty adviser of the Russian-Speaking
Student Association (RSSA) in 2001-2006. Many of the links below
point to pages in Russian. |
 Bouts
rimés - A versification game in Russian, part
of the Centrolit
group of Russian literary games. I collected some
of my bouts rimés for no particular reason.- Setevaya
Slovesnost' (Online Literature) - A Russian online literary
journal. In June 2005, it published two small collections of my
poems and short stories. So I am sort of a published author,
I guess.
- Tenyota -
An online Russian literary competition. "Tenyota" is an archaic
Russian word for "web". Here is my
entry in the humor category for the 2002-2003 competition
(7th place out of 83 submissions). I am also a member of the Internet
jury of Tenyota (which has both an Internet jury and a professional
writers' jury).
- The Russian
Journal - An online Russian magazine. Its "Net Culture"
department has recently asked me to write this
article.
- the eXile -
An interesting, if controversial, look at Russia and the world
through the eyes of American expatriates.
- Russian
Internet Radio and Video at the Russian Seattle
site.
- Victor Kamkin
and Saint Petersburg, two online
Russian bookstores in the United States.
- Ozon, an
online Russian bookstore in Russia. Possibly greater choice, but
deliveries can take a while (my experience is 2-3 months).
- Filimon
2.2.10, a converter between various Russian encodings and
transliterated Russian. Useful if you need to type in Cyrillic
letters, but can only use Latin characters. You may want to take
a look at the transliteration
scheme first.
- Guitar
Solo Publications (GSP), On-line
Guitar Archive (OLGA), Guitarist,
Harmony Central,
and Guitar Notes, sources
of guitar recordings, sheet music, transcriptions, tablatures,
etc.
- The
Mathematics Genealogy Project. My academic roots go pretty
deep.
- Ph.D.
Comics. How we got that way.
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